“...a bridge from misery to hope.” – adapted from a quote by Kofi Annan
A basic education is an essential human right and should be a global, national and local priority. On September 25, 2015, the countries of the UN adopted a set of goals to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all as part of the UN’s...
Tara Scott (AWC Central Scotland), member of the Education Team, traveled to Korea to attend the UN Department of Public Information NGO Conference 2016. This is Tara's report:
Education for Global Citizenship: Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals Together
The 66th UN DPI / NGO Conference
Seeing oneself as a Global Citizen was at the heart of this conference. My understanding...
FAWCO Education Team/AIWC Cologne
Bridging Cultures Workshop Between Cologne and Kisumu
The Bridging Cultures Workshop started with great enthusiasm, and consisted of four successful 45 minute actual Skype sessions. Having great IT specialists present at the IBA (Cologne, Germany) and the Aga Khan School (Kisumu, Kenya) certainly helped. A total of 13 students were involved in the whole workshop. We soon realized...
Spearheaded by Arandeep Degun with the support of fellow AIWC Cologne members Mary Dobrian, Janet Davis, Sally Webersinke and Carol-Lyn McKelvey, the project had a great start. The first workshop, the World Wise School, ran for four sessions in April/May. The bright and enthusiastic participants were children of AIWC Cologne members and selected students from the International Friedensschule Koeln (IFK).
Stacy Lara, FAWCO's Representative to the Human Rights Council in Geneva, reported on a recent conference emphasizing the link between education and peace, poverty eradication, sustainable development and intercultural dialogue. You can read Stacy's report here.
To read a UN Report on the crucial role of education in the achievement of the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), click here.
From the report: "The MDGs with targets for 2015 crystallized the growing consensus which emerged during the 1990s, namely, that poverty reduction and the provision of basic social services need to be at the centre of development policy. Of...